This 85-year-old protest song about Hitler is going viral because it is relevant again today.
This will be my ringtone and my wake-up alarm from now on.
Nick Bilton walked into the 60 Minutes newsroom four days after Bari Weiss fired the people who built the show. He tried to pretend he didn't know about the firings. Scott Pelley, in front of the remaining staff, would not let that stand.
"She loves 60 Minutes," Bilton said. "She's murdering 60 Minutes," Pelley said back. "She does not love this place. She was brought in to kill it - and she's doing exactly that."
One of Weiss's lieutenants kept interrupting to say Pelley was being rude. Pelley kept going.
JVL's framing is the right one. The corrupter depends on the existing institution being too polite to say the obvious thing out loud. Christopher Wray resigned quietly to "preserve the integrity of the FBI." John Kelly gave print interviews after he left. Thom Tillis, John Cornyn, Mitch McConnell, Jim Mattis, Bill Barr - all of them saw it. All of them objected privately. None of them said it in the room where it was happening, to the person doing it, while the cameras were still running.
Pelley said it in the room. To the person's face. In front of witnesses. While he still worked there.
That is a different thing entirely. Not a memoir. Not an anonymous source in a tell-all. Not a carefully worded statement issued after the resignation letter was already filed. The true thing, said out loud, to the people who needed to hear it, at the moment it could still matter.
Authoritarianism counts on politesse. It counts on people deciding the fight isn't worth the awkwardness, the career risk, the label of being difficult. Scott Pelley decided it was worth it. The republic needs more of that calculation to come out the same way.
Thereβs been a lot of talk in this race about what makes a "real man."
A man does whatβs right when no one is watching. He upholds his commitments to his family and neighbors. He doesnβt lie, cheat, & steal his way through life.
Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.
@galvcountyoem Is a kidβs guide unique to Galveston? I grew up there in the β70s and can recall 80+ year old survivors of 1900 Storm being part of school assemblies teaching us about hurricanes & local history. Is a kids guide done anywhere else by coastal OEMs?
First on LateNighter: Jimmy Kimmel didn't just win the first head-to-head night of late night's post-Colbert 11:35 p.m. era, he consolidated a sizable share of the audience CBS left behind. https://t.co/ZPFGxoJGtK
@johnarnold Itβs the most small biz oriented segment in the booze industry compared to macro-brewers and distillers owned by bloated multinationals. Still the big wineries make slop for winos and book clubs.
Iβm Kid Rock.β
βIβm Naomi Wolf.β
βIβm Kanye West.β
βIβm Matt Taibbi.β
βIβm Catturd. Those stories, plus Rob Schneider, tonight on 60 Minutes.β